Munir Chowdhury - Paragraph

Munir Chowdhury - Paragraph

Munir Chowdhury was born is 1925 at Manikganj, Dhaka. He was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political rebel. Chowdhury graduated from Dhaka Collegiate School in 1941. He attended Aligrah Muslim University and later studied English literature for his Bachelors degree and Masters at the Dhaka University. In 1954, he completed a second Masters degree in Bengali. He was passionately devoted to Bangla language and culture, and courted imprisonment in 1952 for his participation in the Bangla language movement. Munir Chowdhury started his career in teaching at Brojolal College in Khulna and worked there between 1947 and 1950. Later he worked for some time at the Jagannath College in Dhaka in 1950. After that, he joined the Dhaka University in 1950 and taught both in English and Bengali language departments between 1950 and 1971. He became Reader in 1962 and Professor in 1970 and the Dean of the faculty of arts in 1971. Munir Chowdhury actively participated in the Language Movement of 1952, and was imprisoned by the Pakistan government. He wrote his famous symbolic drama, kabar in Bengali during his imprisonment. On 14 December 1971 Munir Chowdhury, along with a large number of Bengali intellectuals, educators, doctors and engineers, were kindnapped from their houses and later tortured and executed by the Pakistan Army and its Bengali collaborators Al-Badr, Al-Shams, only 2 days before the end of the Bangladesh War. His dead body could not be identified.